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  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  minority; most people seem to call every week or so). My dad will want to ... family, they’re no longer “going home”, they’re “leaving home.” Or maybe ... to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  commentary about the things that I am (or was) up to. Without further ado ... to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These ... data for my thesis right now. It’s involved multiple reinstalls of Python

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  very long time. It will be unsurprising to longtime readers, therefore ... read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  responsibility. The thesis may be a design project, an analytical paper, or experimental work of a technical nature. M.Eng. theses normally involve one or more of the following: 1. Design of a system followed by construction

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over ... submit your Part 1, you will have access to application tracking, so you ... interview happened two or more weeks ago AND you have submitted Part 1 of the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been ... after only one or two revisions. And people really like that. So I ask myself whether I should do more quirky elaborate posts or continue with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... !" Mathematician: "If one more person goes into the building, it will be empty!" The ... had to navigate to MIT student center. Here we are buying tickets for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  : (Calmly) "UmmmmOKAY."* *Note: Liberally adapted from original discussion. Figure 1 ... resistance, cancer, and/or manufacturing/synthetic biology while considering ... Museum like typical American tourists (or about as typical as a Peruvian

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... and bipolar, or maybe tripolar, yet glamorous in a brutal Russian sort

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the weekend, like Walden Pond or Cape Cod. My friend Anthony '10 found ... look something like this: In addition to subways (which cost $1.70 to $2.00 a ride), the MBTA also runs buses (these cost $1.25 to $1.50 a ride

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the ... , signage everywhere. A man is asking "15 or 30 minutes?" for observation and ... hopeful again—relieved that the national nightmare is finally over, or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... reading a random assortment of words you may hear: cruft: 1. n literally ... away, typically lab equipment and electronics found on reuse or at Stata

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have ... participate in the MISTI program Global Teaching Labs (GTL). In the GTL program ... greenhouse or botany subjects altogether. Kibbutz Ecological Greenhouse and its

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]Paterson.[/annotation]  “Hmm this reminds me of Scotland. Or more like, my imagination of what ... that could give James Charles a run for his money. When [annotation note="Global ... school through Years 1-6 (ages 5-11), and then secondary school from Years

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  develop or innovate a product –it can be anything!-- that will assist ... communal showers in fear of attack or harassment going there and coming back ... -effective and easily installable shower system units will be implemented on almost

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Laboratory"]6.2220[/annotation] together) Will I graduate? (Yes... hopefully ... ’t learn college-level differential equations or quantum mechanics in high ... this year. Course 6n’t For better or worse, my own MIT degree audit is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  about CPW and I'll answer them here on the blog or someone else will if I ... , faculty, and anyone else you manage to meet. Rule #1: If you're paying for ... getting much sleep whether it was checking out another aspect of MIT or

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... taste much better when they cost 10 krones (~$1.50) at the supermarket

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  .20 $1.00 x 2 = $2 $2 darts among Erica, Ling, Simon $5 ring toss among ... .84 each darts: $2/3 $.67: Erica, Ling, Simon = $5.51 ring toss: $5/5 $1: Erica, Ling, Simon = $6.51; Sam, Nick = $5.84 jacob's ladder: $5/4 $1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... . They’re pretty cute, since I had absolutely no idea what was going on, or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007